Squaaawk…

Well, I’ve been marvelling in the expansion of MrsA’s artistic talents recently, with her return to brush and canvas after many years absence… and it has inspired me also to pick up a medium long forgotten… Pencil and paper… And this last weekend I sketched me a preening parrot…

Strangely enough though, what I found most difficult about this was actually trying to photograph it for my blog… lol…

I think one of the reasons I lapsed from pencil sketching, and tend to avoid painting, is that I have very little in the way of patience, and am also overly concerned with detail… Believe it or not I started my first ever oil painting some 10 years ago, and never did finish it… lol…

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aswirly

Hooray, I have been WAITING for this. Yay. And the wait was worth it. It looks stellar B :) You did an excellent job! I know what you mean though. I also lack the patience which is why I stopped. With photography it is all about the detail which is great, but in art like this it forces us to let go a little, and we don’t like that ;) I’m gonna bug you about that oil painting…

WOW! This looks really good! I’ll have to show it to my daughter, she loves to draw! Maybe I can talk her into photographing some of her art for her blog…. and hopefully she still has some of her earlier work (some amazing dragons!).

Seems pretty good to me! I love that spiralling movement. I know exactly what you mean when it comes to painting and drawing. I’m completely immersed in detail, and whereas “serious” artists will start a painting or drawing as soon as they’ve finished the last, I feel like I need at least 2 months to recover!

LOL!!!! One legged spider on crack! I’m going to have to use that one if you don’t mind! My cartoons are only copies of others’ work that I’ve done, mostly to please my daugthers – Garfield, Scooby-Doo, etc.

By the way, the simplest way to ‘photograph’ artwork and drawings (as long as it’s small enough and even if it isn’t it can usually be stitched together in Photoshop or another program) is to pop it into a scanner.
:)

Oh, fan-‘freakin-tastic…
You draw (spectacularly) too??!! SO not fair.
You know, sometimes the internets are very bad for my self-esteem. ;)

*tee*hee*
In all seriousness, this is GORGEOUS!! And I’m not really *that* jealous…(*lie*lie*lie*) LOL

Thanks so much for sharing a bit more of yourself here. It’s such fun to follow a blog, and learn a bit more of a person bit by bit as they reveal themselves to their readers. It’s like putting a puzzle together, one in which you’re given one piece at a time to treasure and play with and see how it fits in with the others.

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